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August Monday Caribbean Beach Party! 🏝️🎉

Get ready for an electrifying performance as Nadia hits the stage on Sandy Ground Beach for one of the biggest celebrations of the summer. 🎤🔥

📅 Monday August 3rd, 2026

📍 Sandy Ground Beach, Anguilla

🎟️ FREE Admission

Who’s ready for the ultimate beach party? 🌊🥳

2 ingredients in our KDM secret sauce :
- Sunshine
- Fun

Part 3 - Investing in your crew

“The crew building your stage at 4:30am shouldn’t be the engineer running your show at 11pm.”

Crew is the most underrated investment in event production.

In the region, we’re quick to buy equipment and slow to invest in the training to operate and maintain. But your crew matters more than your gear in my opinion. If we have to import skills every time we use our new equipment, we’ve defeated the whole purpose of building local production capacity.

If you’re serious about growing, structure your business into departments — (Sound, Lighting, Power etc.) and have a planning and operations strategy — and let crew members champion them. You won’t get there overnight, but the goal is specialists. One small crew planning, executing, and maintaining everything isn’t sustainable.

I see it constantly across the Caribbean: the same crew drives the truck in, builds stage and roof, rigs sound, lights and screen, runs the show, then de-rigs and drives home at 5am.

I get it. Our ecology demands versatility. Today a concert, tomorrow a reality show, next week a corporate function. Learning every aspect makes you employable — that is the system that trained me. But versatility is a starting point, not a destination.

Your engineer running the board at 11pm should not be the same person who clocked in at 4:30am to build the site. Something is suffering — your safety, your show quality, or your people.

Probably all three.

If that’s your current operation, fix it.

Part 2 - Investing in your crew

“The crew building your stage at 4:30am shouldn’t be the engineer running your show at 11pm.”

Crew is the most underrated investment in event production.

In the region, we’re quick to buy equipment and slow to invest in the training to operate and maintain. But your crew matters more than your gear in my opinion. If we have to import skills every time we use our new equipment, we’ve defeated the whole purpose of building local production capacity.

If you’re serious about growing, structure your business into departments — (Sound, Lighting, Power etc.) and have a planning and operations strategy — and let crew members champion them. You won’t get there overnight, but the goal is specialists. One small crew planning, executing, and maintaining everything isn’t sustainable.

I see it constantly across the Caribbean: the same crew drives the truck in, builds stage and roof, rigs sound, lights and screen, runs the show, then de-rigs and drives home at 5am.

I get it. Our ecology demands versatility. Today a concert, tomorrow a reality show, next week a corporate function. Learning every aspect makes you employable — that is the system that trained me. But versatility is a starting point, not a destination.

Your engineer running the board at 11pm should not be the same person who clocked in at 4:30am to build the site. Something is suffering — your safety, your show quality, or your people.

Probably all three.

If that’s your current operation, fix it.

Part 1 - Investing in your crew

“The crew building your stage at 4:30am shouldn’t be the engineer running your show at 11pm.”

Crew is the most underrated investment in event production.

In the region, we’re quick to buy equipment and slow to invest in the training to operate and maintain. But your crew matters more than your gear in my opinion. If we have to import skills every time we use our new equipment, we’ve defeated the whole purpose of building local production capacity.

If you’re serious about growing, structure your business into departments — (Sound, Lighting, Power etc.) and have a planning and operations strategy — and let crew members champion them. You won’t get there overnight, but the goal is specialists. One small crew planning, executing, and maintaining everything isn’t sustainable.

I see it constantly across the Caribbean: the same crew drives the truck in, builds stage and roof, rigs sound, lights and screen, runs the show, then de-rigs and drives home at 5am.

I get it. Our ecology demands versatility. Today a concert, tomorrow a reality show, next week a corporate function. Learning every aspect makes you employable — that is the system that trained me. But versatility is a starting point, not a destination.

Your engineer running the board at 11pm should not be the same person who clocked in at 4:30am to build the site. Something is suffering — your safety, your show quality, or your people.

Probably all three.

If that’s your current operation, fix it.

Part 3 - Can you work together with your competitors?

🎤 In the West Indies, the number of events — and their ability to cover the cost of suppliers maintaining the equipment international acts demand — is a tall ask.

International riders and the constantly changing equipment landscape make it more financially prudent for local suppliers to specialise in one area, rather than trying to be a one-stop shop for events or festivals booking international acts.

For medium-scale or smaller events, local suppliers should absolutely feel free to offer a one-stop facility to producers and promoters. But when world-class event standards are on the line, the one-stop model is extremely difficult to deliver and rather than compete they should collaborate.

And remember — it’s not just about equipment. You have to maintain and train a knowledgeable crew too. But that’s for another video. 🎬

The point: suppliers need to work together. That way, the amount of equipment being imported is reduced or eliminated, and more of the production-cost revenue stays on island. 🌴

🤝 Let’s learn to work together.

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